Stories about the number of Black women who are single have made headlines for years, and many of us are tired of hearing them. But the reality often hits home during the holidays, when discussing your love life becomes an appetizer at meals with the family. What can be even more disheartening than seeing your beautiful, professional, well-educated sisterfriend still unattached is seeing a successful Black man settle down with someone of another ethnic group. Though Black men are still twice as likely as Black women to date outside their race, it seems more and more of us are becoming open to dating beyond the color line. Toya Lachon, 43, of Washington, D.

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CNN Nikki Buskirk was watching vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff wave to supporters at an Election Night celebration in November when the future second gentleman did something that made Buskirk glow with admiration. Black Southerners are wielding political power that was denied their parents and grandparents This Black country singer wrote the most powerful song about race in What Trump's four years taught me about the two White Americas Trump called him 'my African American. You may not like the answer I covered the Rodney King riots. This moment feels different.


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Interracial marriage in the United States has been legal throughout the United States since at least the U. Supreme Court Warren Court decision Loving v. Virginia that held that "anti-miscegenation" laws were unconstitutional via the 14th Amendment adopted in The first "interracial" marriage in what is today the United States was that of the woman today commonly known as Pocahontas , who married tobacco planter John Rolfe in The first ever law prohibiting interracial marriage was passed by the Maryland General Assembly in



Americans more likely to marry outside of their race, especially black men. The film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," about an interracial couple and their parents' angst, was considered groundbreaking. Fast forward four decades and you don't have to look to the big screen to see interracial couples.